Napster - Should Music Be Free To Share?

I believe this is the way forward for the music industry. The rip-charging of 4 quid a single has now gone. People 'share' music for free which is of course illegal but it just goes to show you that a lot of people will want to download a lot of different music. Also this is a great as idea as it then makes 'file sharing' via Napster pointless. The music industry can still make good money if they are clever and find it from different revenues'. Such as making there own site like Napster and charging for advertising etc. Or I would be happy to pay 20p a download as well as a subscription. Most people know that any 'artists' that do not write their own songs will ...  Read the complete review

Although it appears Napster is no more, there are still plenty of other fils sharing programs out there than allow you to download music without any real cost. The legal ethics are always pretty shady and in a way it's strange that people don't consider it stealing. Yet it's also strange that record companies only now have started to take notice when home taping has been going on for over a decade. The record industry on a whole are seeing the likes of Kaazaa etc as a real threat to their profits etc. They're arguing that people aren't buying records anymore and instead are downloading them at their own freewill with the artists being the ...  Read the complete review

Those of us of a certain age (pre-CD) will remember the joy of getting a two-deck tape recorder, so we could copy our friend's tape collection. More youthful DooYooers will probably fondly remember their first CD burner, so they could copy their mates' CDs. And really, when it comes down to it, that's all Napster (RIP) and the other file-sharing programs enable their users to do. Why restrict yourself to your best friends poxy collection of early 90s grunge CDs, when you can access the rare, live, unreleased material which you'd normally pay well over the odds for in a decent record store? In fact, why buy CDs at all, ever? Because by ...  Read the complete review

I am really new to mp3 and music sites, so when i enquired after this new phonomenon i was directed to napster, which is the most well known. Unfortunately, for me, this came too late, as the site was almost closed due to court cases, so i went in search of different ones, although there were plenty i found downloading time excessive and difficult, so abandoned the idea until i had more information. I duly did my homework and tackled the sites with much more confidence, then along came audiogalaxy!! I registered with this site as instructed, downloaded the music i wanted (if it was available) and happily switched off my computer content that i had done ...  Read the complete review

Who pays for music these days? the only people i know of are those who dont use the internet much or real hardcore fans. This should probably go in as a short oppinion but I am not sure how much extra i will write on later. i am interested to know whether anyone else is like me and never! buys any music. Call me cheap but I download all my tracks. I havent bought a single legal music cd in years. I have 10 gigabytes of mp3s on my hard drive (but on a 80 gig drive this does not clog up space as some other writers here have claimed). If I want a song the choice is obious: do i go to the shop and buy the cd, or spend a few minutes downloading? I ...  Read the complete review